Kitchen Utensil Meme

[debris4spike]

Snagged from curiouswombat  and slaymesoftly,

I am not a great cook, as there is only "me" I can't always be bothered - but I do love it when I do it. I try to cook a cake or biscuits at least once a week ... but don't ask me what I made this week, as there was nothing ..... oooooops! As I deleted some of sslaymesoftlys comments I realise that (at long last) we have a meme with English, rather than American phrases on!

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

pasta machines
breadmakers ... at least once a week!
juicers .... only the one for getting juice for cooking.
deep fat fryers
egg boilers
melon ballers
sandwich makers
pastry brush
cheese boards
cheese knives
crepe makers
electric woks
miniature salad spinners
griddle pans
jam funnels
pie funnels
meat thermometers
filleting knives
egg poachers
cake stands
garlic crushers
martini glasses
tea strainers
bamboo steamers
pizza stones
coffee grinders
milk frothers
piping bags
banana stands
fluted pastry wheels ... I always flute pastry by hand!
tagine dishes (huh)
conical strainers
rice cookers
steam cookers
pressure cookers
slow cooker
spaetzle makers (again, huh)
cookie presses
gravy strainers
double boilers
sukiyaki stoves (more huh!)
ice cream makers
fondue sets
healthy-grills
home smokers
tempura sets
tortilla presses
electric whisks
cherry stoners
sugar thermometers
food processor  .... I tend to mix with a bowl and wooden spoon!
stand mixers,
mincers,
bacon presser
bacon slicers
mouli mills
cake testers
pestle-and-mortars
gratin dishes
apple corers
mango stoners
sets of kebab skewers
Potato ricer
Pineapple peeler and slicer
Lazy Susan
Soda Stream
Lemon zester
salt pepper mills
Stove top espresso makers
Waffle irons

slaymesoftly  also added -
electric skillet
toaster
toaster oven
microwave oven
electric kettle
coffee maker
can openers

Some of those I use all the time like a kettle - how can I cope without a cup of tea!

Comments

[bubblesandlace.livejournal.com]

I am so clueless about cooking its not even funny :( I really want to experiment more with slow cookers though!!

[debris4spike]

LOL - When I was at college, Mum got a job to help me, so I had to learn some basic stuff then to help out. Add to that the cookery I did art school, it is there in my brain ... if not in the kitchen!

Slow cookers, though - we had a lot of casseroles as a id, and that has put me off them!

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

spaetzle makers - Spaetzle is a type of noodle. You can make them by hand, but some use a tool that you push the dough through to drop into boiling water. I ate Spaetzle in Germany.

I have an electric kettle for cocoa and tea. Works pretty well.

I added a few things when I did the meme.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine anyone not having an electric kettle - I don't even know anyone who would put 'electric' in front of 'kettle' - no-one in Britain would ever think of a kettle being anything else - nor not have one!

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

Here in the States, we have kettles that go on the stove. When the water reaches the boiling stage, the kettle whistles.

It's more unusual to have an electric kettle where I live. We drink more ice tea here than tea like you enjoy. Heating water on the stove is more common. Different strokes for different folks.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We had those when I was a small child in the late 50s or early 60s, but I haven't seen one in use anywhere this century.

I hardly ever drink tea - but I use the kettle all the time! For example - I have just been cooking pasta - I boil the water in the kettle before putting it in the pan (1litre from cold to boiling takes about 2 minutes, 3 at most) as it is much faster than starting from scratch on the stove. Obviously I do the same when I cook vegetables, or rice, and to rinse the rice.

And, of course, we have a kettle in our office at work to make tea or coffee as we work, or for cuppasoups or pot-noodles if we are desperate as lunch times.

[debris4spike]

Oh thanks for the noodle-news. I buy the freeze-died type!

I must check out your list tonight.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It amazes me that Americans regard electric kettles as gadgets!

[debris4spike]

So true - isn't it a nightmare when there's a power cut! But there again, I exist on tea!